Роль Митрополита Варшавського Діонісія Валединського в конституюванні УАПЦ формації 1942 року
The role of the Metropolitan of Warsaw Dionisii Valedynskyi constituting the wartime Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

Summary/Abstract: The role of the Metropolitan of Warsaw Dionisii Valedynskyi constituting the wartime Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church The article deals with external transformation of Ukrainian orthodoxy during the World War II. Special attention is paid to the canonical relations between the Warsaw Metropolitanate and the Moscow Patriarchate. Under German occupation, ukrainian orthodoxy split into two groups. One trend was led by Metropolitan Oleksii Hromadskyi who created the Autonomous Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate. Metropolitan of Warsaw Dionisii Valedynskyi gave his blessing for the establishment of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and designated Archbishop Polikarp Sikorskyi as administrator of the church. In February 1942 in Pinsk Sikorsky consecrated the fi rst two bishops of the UAOC on Ukrainian territory (Nykanor Abramovych and Ihor Huba), and in May 1942 the Kyiv Council of UAOC bishops elected Dionisii as locum tenens of the Metropolitan See of Kyiv.

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